greatest accomplishment in a video game

[thebigkahuna]

jeff touched on it bit in the 'chew on this' segment when he mentioned he hadnt had more fun than doing co-op on legendary

so the question is, what is the most fun or greatest achievement you've had while playing a video game?


mine would be beating Gears on Insane in co-op without playing it on casual or hardcore first.

[bagofbeef]

Jumping over the scorpion in Pitfall

[masherscf]

Something about video games doesn't make me feel that accomplished. However, back in the day I was quite a Pacman champ.

I must have spent a couple of hundred dollars getting there but, in several games I got to the ninth key. That's like level 22. The monsters don't change any more and I never did discover a pattern for it. Rumor has it that the same pattern will work until level 256 when the game crashes. I've never got beyond key 9.

[electricalburn]

Originally Posted by masherscf

Something about video games doesn't make me feel that accomplished. However, back in the day I was quite a Pacman champ.

aggreed, most accomplished thing i have ever done was went out bought an xbox(my only video game system) and never took it out of the box till this day. go out and live life

[gi_josh]

Originally Posted by ElectricalBurn

go out and live life

Says the man posting on an internet message board........... I kid, I kid.

Not my greatest accomplishment, but my most rewarding/fun was playing NHL Hitz with my best friend for hours and laughing at the dumb stuff the announcers say.

[masherscf]

Originally Posted by ElectricalBurn

aggreed, most accomplished thing i have ever done was went out bought an xbox(my only video game system) and never took it out of the box till this day. go out and live life

Well, I love me some video games. But such things could not be compared with dragging my ass up a mountain, walking across a stage to collect my Ph.D. or helping the doctor deliver my new-born daughter.

[mojofrojo]

Me and my brother beating Smash TV on the sega genesis. It was the only bonding time we ever had.

[big_h]

When you say 'accomplishments' do you mean feats that others would consider accomplishments or just things which you personally would even if others don't understand? If it's the latter then I have a ton, if it's the former then I can only think of one at the moment. Which was winning the final round in a CS tourney single handedly after the rest of my team was massacred.
As for the ones that I consider accomplishments which other might not understand and which have huge amounts of back story...
-Finishing the first water level of Mario 1 by myself.
-Making a sneak attack on my firend's Capital city in Heroes of Might and Magic 2 during an epic sleep over.
-Beating Baldur's Gate the first time.
-Multiple Risk battles, both with the board game and the PC version.
-Getting a perma ban from the iSketch servers (technically not a video game, but it is a game)... which may not sound like a good thing, but it totally was. But to be fair, that was a group effort, and a tremendously fun time.
...OK, so a 'ton' worked its way down to five, but to this day those five still make me smile.

Since they weren't the original topic, I'll leave the "life accomplishments" for another thread.

[kwok_talk]

-Beating Ninja Gaiden (xbox)
-Finally getting past the Canned Heat song on Elite Beat Agents.

[thebigkahuna]

Originally Posted by big_h

Since they weren't the original topic, I'll leave the "life accomplishments" for another thread.

yeah, this thread got really heavy fast. you can still accomplish things in video games. i think some people may have missed the point of this thread.